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Meet Sky: OpenAI’s New AI That Operates Your Computer
November 1, 2025·12 min·1 clip
OpenAI acquired a company that its own CEO, Sam Altman, had personally invested in, raising questions about the deal's motivation.
As heard by us
Sky reads as a bet on desktop-level AI control, but the episode keeps coming back to how much supervision it still needs.
The episode treats OpenAI's acquisition of Sky as another step toward AI that can operate inside the desktop, not just around it. It keeps circling back to a practical test: what can the software actually do for a user, and how much supervision still has to stay in place.
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OpenAI's Sky acquisition adds another move in the agent race.
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